The Monitor. [volume] (Woodstown, N.J.) 1884-1892, 1887-05-27
E.OCAE NEWS.

The Bank will be closed next Monday.
The 'ssaeculent shad" will soon peter
out for the season.
The livery stables are doing a good bust
ness thisp pleasant weather.
Charlie Smith is said TO haye refused
$4,000 for s'Jer. Almont." He holds him
at $4,000.
Strawberry raisers say that the crop this
year will be a light one, as the plants have
set very little.
The scores of the Philadelphia bate-ball
games are nightly displayed in the window
of Harris drug store.
Strawberries have made their appearance
in our home market. We have been
afraid to ask the price as yet.
County Superintendent Holme will hold
an examination of candidates for teachers
certificates in Salem to-day and tomorrow.
The festival of the ~Sharptown Nj. E. Sun
day school comes off tonight and to-mor-
row night at the Knight of Pythias Hall,
at that place. o
The Auditing Committee of the Board
of Freeho lders audited the accounts of
Quinton p. Harris, the late County Col
lector, on Tuesday.
The Mt. Holly Herald says that ''Sev-
enty- Six til. little PAGER which won sew
eral purses at Woodstown last Fall, will
pace below 2.2O this season.
Bro. Smith, of the ~Jcrseyman, wants to
Click the man who detaced the bulk
window of his Office lately. Take your
''shooting-stick" TO him, Bro. S.
John NJ. HoIstein, Joseph Valentine and
Spencer Blake, who were sentenced to
State Prison at the last term of Court,
were taken to Trenton by Sheriff Kelly on
Tuesday.
The paper that advertises itself by the
means of boards along the highways and
signs in public places evidently has little
faith in the value of its own columns as an
advertising medium.
The Fenwick Base Ball Club of Salem
defeated a picked nine from that city, in a
practice game on Tuesday, by a score OF
30 to "i.fxey.'' Not only picked, but
plucked, we should say.
We cali the attention Of our readers to
the adv. of the Moorestown Agricultural
and Industrial Society. who hold their
eighth annual exhibition at Moorestown ON
June Sth, 9th and 10th.
A heavy thunderstorm passed over this
section on Wednesday evening which gave
the earth the much-needed soaking that
the shower Of Tuesday failed to do. Well
have a crop of hay yet, if nothing happens.
The Woodstown post Office will be closed
next Monday, decoration Day. from 10
O'Clock A. NJ. 10 ) o'clock p. NJ, and will
close in the evening at seven o'clock. Pco-
pie will save themselves much inconyen-
fence by pasting this in their hats.
The long period of dry weather which
has caused much anxiety on the part Oh the
farmers was broken on Tuesday morning
by a brief but welcome shower which did
wonders in the way of freshening up veSe-
tation and rcviving the dropping spirits oil
those who so badly needed the shower.
A party of swindlers are working the
eastern section of Pennsylvania at present.
They sell eggs at So per dozen, represent
ing them to be of a very valuable breed.
They also contract to purchase all chickens
raised at SO per head. Upon investigation
by those who lave been gulled, the eggs
prove to be boiled.
Decoration Day services will be rs stated
III our last issue. Members of Foster Post,
G. A. r., will assemble at their Post room
and, accompanied by such societies and
citizens as may join with them in the ccle-
bration, will march to the various eeme-
teries, after which Rev. B. p. Johnson, of
the Presbyterian church, will deliver a
brief address in the Baptist churchyard.
One Of Philadelphia's prominent MGR
chants whose carly life was spent in
Woodstown, was last Monday sent a copy
Of the circular address of the Library
Trustees to the people OF Woodstown. and
by return OF mail the trustees were graft
fled by the receipt from him of liberal
contribution to the fund they are endeay-
oring to raise for the benefit ofthe Library.